In­vok­ing late for­mer prime min­is­ter Bas­deo Pan­day’s push for lo­cal con­tent in State projects, a group of San Fer­nan­do con­trac­tors are de­mand­ing a “fair share” of work at the Al­lam­by Res­i­den­tial De­vel­op­ment as they con­tin­ue camp­ing out­side the site in search of jobs.

Thou­sands of com­muters across Trinidad are ex­pect­ed to face se­vere trans­porta­tion dis­rup­tions from Mon­day, af­ter maxi taxi op­er­a­tors con­firmed they will pro­ceed with a na­tion­wide with­draw­al of ser­vice fol­low­ing un­suc­cess­ful talks with Gov­ern­ment of­fi­cials.

Op­po­si­tion MP Mar­vin Gon­za­les is al­leg­ing that the Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice’s (TTPS) fleet of 51 new elec­tric pa­trol ve­hi­cles was not pur­chased out­right by the State but in­stead leased through a mul­ti-mil­lion-dol­lar arrange­ment with a com­pa­ny in­cor­po­rat­ed short­ly af­ter last year’s Gen­er­al Elec­tion.

A Sea Lots man was beat­en and killed, af­ter he al­leged­ly sex­u­al­ly as­sault­ed a 13-year-old girl ear­li­er this week.

A faulty fan is sus­pect­ed to have caused a fire that left more than $100,000 in dam­age at Sarah’s Prepara­to­ry School in La Ro­maine on Thurs­day night.

In­ves­ti­ga­tions were on­go­ing yes­ter­day evening as po­lice sought to de­ter­mine the mo­tive be­hind the mur­der of Pro­man em­ploy­ee Ri­car­do Di­az.

Thurs­day’s court rul­ing on jet ski op­er­a­tions at Pi­geon Point and Buc­coo Reef Ma­rine Park has been de­scribed as bal­anced and fair, with both par­ties claim­ing suc­cess.

De­spite ex­ten­sive search­es com­pris­ing var­i­ous state agen­cies, the boy’s body has not been re­cov­ered.

More than a month af­ter the shock­ing mur­der of act­ing cor­po­ral Anus­ka Ever­s­ley and the theft of firearms and am­mu­ni­tion from the San Fer­nan­do Mu­nic­i­pal Po­lice Sta­tion, an in­ter­faith ser­vice was held at the sta­tion yes­ter­day as col­leagues con­tin­ue to re­cov­er from the tragedy.

As the world ob­serves World Mul­ti­ple Scle­ro­sis Day to­day, the Mul­ti­ple Scle­ro­sis So­ci­ety of Trinidad and To­ba­go is seek­ing to shine a spot­light on the con­di­tion, which many peo­ple still know lit­tle about, de­spite the life-chang­ing chal­lenges it presents for those af­fect­ed.

Sky­watch­ers across Trinidad and To­ba­go and the wider Caribbean may want to look up this week­end as a rel­a­tive­ly rare lu­nar event, known as a “Blue Moon,” ris­es to­day.

As an­oth­er At­lantic hur­ri­cane sea­son ap­proach­es, me­te­o­rol­o­gists and dis­as­ter man­agers across the Caribbean are work­ing on a fun­da­men­tal shift in the way warn­ings are is­sued to the pub­lic.